{"id":5542,"date":"2012-09-03T11:14:45","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T19:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/?p=5542"},"modified":"2012-09-03T11:16:01","modified_gmt":"2012-09-03T19:16:01","slug":"friday-nights-finished-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/friday-nights-finished-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday nights finished up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Friday-night-on-Q20.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5544 colorbox-5542\" title=\"Friday night on Q20\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Friday-night-on-Q20-475x320.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Friday-night-on-Q20-475x320.jpg 475w, https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Friday-night-on-Q20-600x404.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Friday-night-on-Q20.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was invited by Glen and Gaby picture above (all pictures by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strotzphotography.com\">Joy Stortz<\/a>) to sail this summer of Friday nights. So when I got a chance I jumped aboard Q. Q is a stunning boat which is custom designed by my favourite yacht designer Carl Schumacher and was built in NZ.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Friday-night-on-Q11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5545 colorbox-5542\" title=\"Friday night on Q11\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Friday-night-on-Q11-475x318.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Friday-night-on-Q11-475x318.jpg 475w, https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Friday-night-on-Q11-600x402.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Friday-night-on-Q11.jpg 685w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last friday was our last night and Glen let me helm the last part of the race which was really fun as the boat is so much fun to sail. We sail Friday nights with no spinnaker and a self tacking Jib boom.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Friday-night-on-Q13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5546 colorbox-5542\" title=\"Friday night on Q13\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Friday-night-on-Q13-475x317.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Friday-night-on-Q13-475x317.jpg 475w, https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Friday-night-on-Q13-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Friday-night-on-Q13.jpg 690w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/a>The course normally takes us up to the golden gate and then back down towards Angel\u00a0Island before heading back across Racoon Straits and the finish off Corinthian YC.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Friday-night-on-Q12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5547 colorbox-5542\" title=\"Friday night on Q12\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Friday-night-on-Q12-475x319.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Friday-night-on-Q12-475x319.jpg 475w, https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Friday-night-on-Q12-600x404.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Friday-night-on-Q12.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/a>Some nights the fog rolls in and as the sun sets it creates a silver lining for the clouds. Beautiful.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Friday-night-on-Q19.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5548 colorbox-5542\" title=\"Friday night on Q19\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Friday-night-on-Q19-475x322.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Friday-night-on-Q19-475x322.jpg 475w, https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Friday-night-on-Q19-600x407.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Friday-night-on-Q19.jpg 684w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/a>On the way back in after another podium position\u00a0for the weekly dinner at SFYC.\u00a0I am looking forward to next year already!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Friday-night-on-Q3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5549 colorbox-5542\" title=\"Friday night on Q3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Friday-night-on-Q3-475x319.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Friday-night-on-Q3-475x319.jpg 475w, https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Friday-night-on-Q3-600x403.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Friday-night-on-Q3.jpg 687w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was such fun to be home enough to do this weekly racing with the team on Q.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was invited by Glen and Gaby picture above (all pictures by Joy Stortz) to sail this summer of Friday nights. So when I got a chance I jumped aboard Q. Q is a stunning boat which is custom designed by my favourite yacht designer Carl Schumacher and was built in NZ. Last friday was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5542"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5551,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5542\/revisions\/5551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingyachtmanagement.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}